[Bug 20331] New: VirtualAlloc() should allocate addresses low to high

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20331

Summary: VirtualAlloc() should allocate addresses low to high
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.31
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://rh-software.com/
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ntdll
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Currently when VirtualAlloc() is called with a NULL address high addresses are
sometimes returned rather than low addresses.  Looking at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366887(VS.85).aspx you will see there
is the MEM_TOP_DOWN option to specify that high addresses should be used, thus
when this is not specified low addresses should be used.  This is the situation
on Windows NT4 through to Server 2008 R2/Windows 7.

To show this effect download http://rh-software.com/downloads/siv.zip, extract
the files and issue the command:
wine siv -save=[memory]=stdout
which on my system gives:
[memory]  [windows]

Area   Start Address  Limit Address  Size               Size   Proportion  
Elapsed    MB/sec

0      0x02B80000     0x67F80000     0x65400000       1.58GB       54.95%    
0.010
1      0x7F000000     0x7FC00000     0x00C00000      12.00MB        0.41%    
0.005
2      0x7FFF0000     0x81FF0000     0x02000000      32.00MB        1.09%    
0.005
3      0xB75C0000     0xB79C0000     0x00400000       4.00MB        0.14%    
0.005
4      0xB6CA0000     0xB70A0000     0x00400000       4.00MB        0.14%    
0.005
5      0xB6890000     0xB6C90000     0x00400000       4.00MB        0.14%    
0.005
...

I think this may only show the issue for systems with >= 3.5GB of ram.  I am
wondering if it might be related to addresses > 0x80000000 (signed vs. unsigned
tests).  Note that SIV is linked with /largeaddressaware.